Joshua Tree Remastered / Expanded Super Deluxe Edition 2CD/DVD
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The 3 disc box-set format contains The Joshua Tree CD, the bonus audio CD, and a Bonus DVD. This package also includes a 56 page hardback embossed book, featuring previously unseen Anton Corbijn photos, handwritten lyrics by Bono and liner notes by Bill Flanagan, Bono, Adam Clayton, Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, Anton Corbijn, Steve Averill, David Batstone, René Castro and a special essay by The Edge.
Content for the Bonus DVD: U2 Live from Paris - filmed at the Hippodrome de Vincennes in Paris, on July 4 1987, on the European leg of The Joshua Tree tour.
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Having nearly exhausted their capacity for pop-song politics on War and The Unforgettable Fire, U2 turned toward themes of personal identity and complex relationships on The Joshua Tree. Not that the group was willing to come down off the barricades entirely: "Mothers of the Disappeared" and "Bullet the Blue Sky" turned a jaundiced eye toward Central America and the United States' role there. But the predominant mood here is one of self-discovery and the hunger for something more on tracks like the pulsating "Where the Streets Have No Name" and the gospel-ish "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For." The album's masterstroke, however, is "With or Without You," a nasty love song dressed up as an ode of devotion and care. It ranks with the Police's "Every Breath You Take" as the most misread smash hit of the '80s. --Daniel Durchholz
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U2 have made a lot of grand music, but 1987's graceful, powerful Joshua Tree stands as their masterwork. It is by turns moving, inspiring, and exhilarating. Each member contributes his best work, and each song shines. Would that all rock records were made with the same care, the same passion and invention. The ubiquitous opening salvo of "Where the Streets Have No Name," "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" and the tense "With or Without You" may define this album to many, but its real strengths lie in the brilliant second half: "Red Hill Mining Town," "Trip Through Your Wires," and the surging "One Tree Hill" (the latter being one of rock's--hell, all music's--truly finest moments). --Michael Ruby
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U2fan8 Said: U2 at their zenith ( Jan. 30th 2010 )
The Joshua Tree is one of the best albums U2 has ever made. Bono's voice was at it's finest, deep and passionate. The music, utterly ethereal (as on Streets and With or Without You), or hard-hitting and angry, as on Bullet the Blue Sky and Exit.
The remaster definetly does the album justice. There is a book, five picture post cards (which I have framed), plus all the B-sides from the time period and a never-before-released concert DVD from Paris, July 4th, 1987. Also on the DVD are two unreleased music videos, one of Red Hill Mining Town; the other an alternate version of With or Without You. The DVD also includes a funny documentary of U2 and their travels across southwestern America.
If you are a U2 fan, and in particular love the Joshua Tree, get this remaster right away. It is well worth the money.
Robert J. Howal Said: U2 can waste your money on another remastered rerelease ( Jan. 24th 2010 )
Back in '83 when we were wailing War over and over again in our dorm rooms and busy making party mix tapes featuring I Will Follow who would have thought U2 would ultimately turn into a massive marketing machine for remixed, remastered, and repackaged media product? Well in the scheme of things I suppose this is fine since millions seem to love it and a goodly chunk of the proceeds are presumably funneled off to Africa's needy. Between the merit of the product itself on the one hand and the prodigious effort and endless hype on the other, there is however, a colossal mis-match. There are 3 straight-forward reasons for this: 1) generally remasters are not worth it (unless maybe, and that is just maybe, you have some pricey high end audio system or the production on the original release was utter rubbish), 2) U2 only has a very small handful of decent b-sides and 3) U2 is a terrible covers band.
So if you would love to have U2's essential albums and help the needy here is some sound advice: come onto Amazon and order up used copies of the original issues of Boy, October, War, Under a Blood Red Sky, The Unforgettable Fire and The Joshua Tree used for pennies a piece plus $2.98 each for S&H. In fact the real beauty of U2's reissue mania is precisely that you can now acquire all of their original issue studio albums on perfectly good quality CD for a vanishingly small sum of money. Now by not buying all of this other unnecessary stuff even a portion of what you have saved would make a respectable and much appreciated donation to your favorite charity.
M. SMITH Said: The Dublin messiah still hasn't found what he's looking for ( Dec. 24th 2009 )
Where for two songs they're ready for the history books; where for two songs the Edge waxes universal; where for much of the lp, he master's the possibilities of dynamic delayed guitar--the jangly guitars and atmospheric production that surpass even The Feelies and The Woodentops. Hardly a movie couldn't use the first two cuts as a soundtrack. Instead, for the next 4 songs you hear as the Mekons aptly characterized: "the Dublin messiah just scattering crumbs." Best to stand a distance from Bono. The added expertise of Eno/Lanois remains (if only they didn't hold back so on Larry Mullen jr.) But alas, no one can save Bono, and therefore, the further you get in, the more you hear the background music; or...the soundtrack.
Luis A. Urrego Ruiz Said: The Joshua Tree experience ( Nov. 13th 2009 )
Finally after two years waiting, I have this work on my hands. I found it greater than I though. Listen the b-sides CD once and again, and again, give me the old taste of U2, full of energy and desires.
Kevin L. Nenstiel Said: What I'm Looking For ( Oct. 8th 2009 )
Though it sounds like teenage hyperbole, I rank this album up there with Sergeant Pepper. It's that good. And not only is it good, it's been every bit as inspirational and epoch-making as that Beatles classic. Its musicality, spirituality, and political engagement transcend its original late-Eighties milieu to create an experience that crosses generations without diminishing its impact.
This album kicks off with three classic tracks: "Where the Streets Have No Name," "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For," and "With Or Without You." All three were hit singles that remain in heavy rotation over twenty years after they were released. And it's not hard to see why. Not only are they musically and lyrically rich, they have a sing-along quality that radio audiences love.
When you pass the singles, you reach what makes the album great. Densely evocative tracks like "Bullet the Blue Sky," "One Tree Hill," and "Red Dirt Mining Town" aren't well known outside fan circles, but if anything they're more dense and impactful than the classic singles. Politically engaged but not bullying, these songs ask the audience questions about itself that not all of us may be ready to answer.
The celebrated desert that informs this album isn't always overt in the songs, but it's always there. The musical austerity, with guitars and drums ringing like some animal calling off in the distance, remind us that the desert is a place of purity. From Christ at Lent to John Wayne in "The Searchers," this is the desert people seek when they want to be purged and made new.
Most music released at the same time as this album was overproduced and virtually unlistenable. Not so this. "The Joshua Tree" is clean in its poetry, incisive in its music, and timeless in its impact. It encourages both imitation and parody, the marks of a true classic. And people still want to listen to it. Over twenty years later, its power and impact remain undiminished.